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Red Dead Online's gold bars can now be purchased with real world money
- Thread starter Ben Walker
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A mix of both, because you can buy better horses, weapons and equipment with Gold early, while others are stuck with Level restrictions.
A few simple examples I didn't realize needed to even be mentioned:
EA
Dead Space (3 did it worst and killed the franchise)
Need for Speed (Payback did it worst and likely killed the franchise)
Any of their sports titles
Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed since Syndicate
Far Cry 5
Most companies have had some form of MTX in their singleplayer games since about 2011-2012.
I've been holding off on the online mode until I completed the singler player, but now I'm just going to skip it completely. The only thing I'll ever pay for in a game is new maps or a meaty expansion. It sounds like rdr2 online is designed to just spend money instead of actually just having fun playing the game. Pass.
Surprisingly worse than GTA online. GTA online did not have any premium currency so you could grind and see progress. There is no way to reasonably grind for gold bar purchases. Unless every item can be purchased with normal currency.
That sounds like shitty UI programming, but are the MTX so intrusive that you feel like you need to buy them to enjoy the game?
I'm saying this because I'm currently playing through AC Odyssey for the first time and, after all that blown out controversy about its experience booster, I have to say that was much ado about nothing. Progression in the game is completely fine, it's exactly what it was in Origins, which didn't feature a booster. The store isn't even intrusive either, you'd never even see it if you didn't mean to.
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void AddGold(Player& currentPlayer, int amount){
currentPlayer.wallet += amount;
}
AddGold(Sucker1234, 350000);
I've played many of those games and had no problem completing them and enjoying them without spending a single extra cent. So "invading" seems a harsh way of putting it. And Dead Space 3? Come on, that was an absurd over-reaction at the time, I can't believe anyone is still thinking today that MTX ruined the game.
Or...they could design and balance the grind in a way that doesn't make players feel like they need to spend hundreds of dollars in real world money just to feel like they're keeping up.
Yet here we are with the franchise dead, it sure didn't help make it all that extra money to come out on top.
And the outrage was because MTX wasn't so prevalent, if anything the outrage wasn't enough because here we are now.
I find the MTX in Rockstar games to be completely overpriced and they're known to be fairly P2W. But people aren't paying just to have the gold. The gold will serve to purchase other content in-game, so this is actual content being sold, not just a digital number.
Dead Space and Need for Speed didn't die because they had MTX. They died because the games were mediocre. Dead Space 3, specifically, because EA didn't know what to do with it and it turned out completely different from its predecessors.
As for Assassin's Creed, I'll quote my previous post:
Not once do I feel like I need to pay to enjoy these games properly, their microtransactions aren't invasive at all. And it's not like the game lacks content so you feel like you need to buy more stuff, quite the opposite, the last two AC games are very much packed with content.
Can't speak for Far Cry, as I haven't played it since 3.
A standard gold ingot that's traded and stored in banks worldwide is 350-430 ounces, and a 400 ounce bar is over $500,000 at the moment. In 1899 a bar like that would have cost about $7,700.
Of course bars can be made of any size, but a $40 one would be really, really small, like less than 0.04 ounces small lol.
Leopold Strauss approves. From one Strauss to another.
LMFAO. You know, I bet the use of 'Strauss' for his character wasn't a coincidence and I actually didn't even make the connection between Take Two's CEO & the character.
I'm 50 hours into Odyssey and don't even know where the mtx store is. Like, I literally don't know how to buy them even if I wanted to.
Trading this game in after I'm done with the epilogue. Fuck the online and the microtransactions. Rockstar will not get a cent in microtransaction money from me. Sad thing is idiots will keep buying that shit so we'll keep getting it.
Well right now they are paying for content that's already shipped and locked behind grind or paywalls. So it's still just an insanely overpriced P2W cheat code.
But yeah... probably more justifiable when they start releasing new content for free( i assume ).
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You responded to a post asking for games where the mtx "invade" singleplayer by posting "Assassin's Creed since Syndicate." My post was pointing out the fact that I legitimately don't know how to purchase mtx in Odyssey. How is that "invading" singleplayer?
Its there. For someone who hates MTX and the fact they exist in SP, they've invaded from MP to SP. Plenty of people hate what they did in Odyseey even compared to Origins from a year ago.
I haven't played either but how does this compare to the Shark cards in GTA Online. Is the conversion worse or about the same?
Here's a thought exercise. It's Friday evening and you are playing RDR2 online. You go the gunsmith. He is selling the most beautiful revolver you have ever seen in a video game but you can only buy it with 55 gold bars. In real life, you work a salary job and earlier in the day just clocked 40 hours for the week. You get a call from your boss. "Hey, I need some extra help this weekend. Are you available to work? Overtime pay!". Do you ( A ) Accept overtime, grind real life work, and use the extra real money to buy virtual gold bars to buy the most beautiful virtual revolver ever ( B ) Decline, say you are busy, and grind RDR2 online for virtual gold bars to buy the most beautiful revolver ever ( C ) Go online and complain about how the most beautiful revolver ever costs too many virtual gold bars ( D ) Decide to play Fallout 76 instead
Any game trying to sell shortcuts in a $60+ product is sad as fuck in my opinion, but sure, Rockstar usually manages to get away with taking the piss the most.
Outside of say FIFA.
lol, this is how we got here.
How fucking kind.
This game can't possibly be as big of a gold mine(pun intented)as GTAV was can it........I would of thought the western setting would not be as popular as the modern day LA setting for the casual gamer out there.
You forgot e) choose to play a game where grinding is not a pain in the ass but meaningful and actually fun.
Should be able to buy one at any precious metals shop. A coin dealer near me sells them.
Dutch will never be happy.
The difference is that those people didnt pay a $60 entrance fee for the privilege of getting ripped off
D. Seems the right path and maybe I will not ask much in this life and get some canvas bags to hide my gold bars. Anyway, fuck all the microtransactions and all the influencers. May all burn in fallout 69 hell.
Assassin's Creed doesn't even have multiplayer anymore, it can't possibly have invaded SP from MP. Microtransactions aren't new to single player and they certainly aren't exclusive to multiplayer. What is the difference between an in-game store selling armor and a DLC armor pack being sold at the same price on the platform store? Those aren't new at all, in fact, they've been around since before Assassin's Creed was even a thing. Is it the fact devs designed an interface in-game to make it easier to sell them?
Suddenly that makes it invasive and mandatory?
I really don't understand.
Considering how I enjoyed the single player, I remember when people on here were claiming rockstar would put micro transactions in single player or the single player would be short. Neither of that happened. The single player alone is worth the money. The online is just a bonus that I'm not bothered in because it looks boring compared to GTA.
I wish them good luck and hope they make millions so they can take their time and give us a great GTA 6.
I wish them good luck and hope they make millions so they can take their time and give us a great GTA 6.
Red Dead Online blows.
Rockstar and TakeTwo learned nothing from GTA Online. The dollars just completely cloud their vision.
Ehhhh....
An ounce of .999% 24-karat gold runs about $1200 right now. A typical gold bar you'd see in movies or in Ft. Knox is 12.5 kilos / 400oz... So you'd be looking at about $480,000 for a bar of gold.
Rockstar and TakeTwo learned nothing from GTA Online. The dollars just completely cloud their vision.
Ehhhh....
An ounce of .999% 24-karat gold runs about $1200 right now. A typical gold bar you'd see in movies or in Ft. Knox is 12.5 kilos / 400oz... So you'd be looking at about $480,000 for a bar of gold.
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The MTX drove the terrible crafting system which led to less weapon variety and never running low on ammo.